Colloquium Series
Throughout the semester, the Department of Geography hosts leading researchers to present stimulating talks on a variety of geographic topics.
Spring 2025 Speakers: | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Institution |
| 4-4-25 | Dr. Ortis Yankey | Geospatial Data Integration to Produce Gridded Population Estimates at Small Area Scales | WorldPop Research Group, University of Southampton, UK |
| 3-7-25 | Dr. Natalia Rogova | Land use patterns in temperate grasslands: historical and geographical lessons for conservation | Oregon State University |
| 2-28-25 | Dr. David Ward | Why are trees taking over our grasslands? | Kent State University |
| 2-7-25 | Dr. Amy Rock | Bringing Geography to the Community: Community-based Learning and the Geography Classroom | Cal Poly Humboldt |
Past Speakers: | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Institution |
| 11-15-24 | Dr. Nubia Beray Armond | From Heat Inequality to Urban Climate Justice: Community-based geographies of Rio de Janeiro | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 11-1-24 | Dr. Aimee Ward | Crossing the Divide: Studying safety and accessibility at mid-block crossings | Kent State University |
| 04-12-24 | Itohan-Osa Abu | Burnt Scars Uncovered: A Comprehensive Satellite Analysis of Maui's August Inferno | Julius Maximillian University, Wuerzburg |
| 03-22-24 | V. Kelly Turner | Shade Equity Master Planning: Improving Quality of Life where People Live, Work, Play and Learn | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 03-08-24 | Geoffrey Henebry | Landscape Transformations from Climate and Globalization: Characterizing the Land Surface Phenologies of Highland Pastures in Kyrgyzstan | Michigan State University |
| 02-23-24 | Amy Potter | What is your relevance to this neighborhood? Why are you here?": Navigating Gentrification at the Black History Museum | Georgia Southern University |
| 01-26-24 | Kendra McSweeney | Prohibition Geographies: the War on Drug sand Socioecological Change in Central America | The Ohio State University |
| 12-08-2023 | Jeffrey Cardille | Sipping from the Data Firehose: Insights from Bayesian inference, power computing, and generalization | McGill University |
| 11-03-2023 | Nicholas Wise | Seeking relationships between Place Making and Place Management | Arizona State University |
| 10-27-2023 | Joshua Inwood | The Modern Infrastructure Landscape and the Legacy of Slavery | Pennsylvania State University |
| 10-13-2023 | Qiongyu Huang | Leveraging Remote Sensing and Geospatial Methods in Spatial Ecology—Birds Bears and Beyond | Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute |
| 09-29-2023 | Larissa Sperk | Expanding Aviation Applications for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and Shining a Light on the NOAA Corps. | Kent State University |
| 09-08-2023 | Gina Butrico | Life in Antarctica | |
| 4-28-2023 | Kristyn Vitale | A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Cat-Human Relationships in the United States and Japan | Unity College |
| 4-14-2023 | Valerie Trouet | Tree Story: What We Can Learn About Climate History from the Rings in Trees | University of Arizona/ Belgian Climate Center |
| 3-10-2023 | Mathew Coleman | Legal Extraterritoriality and U.S. Coast Guard Drug Interdiction in the Western Hemisphere | The Ohio State University |
| 3-03-2023 | Thomas J. Ballinger | When climate projections transpire early: Recent sea ice and atmospheric observations from the Pacific Arctic | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| 2-10-2023 | Brice K. Grunert | Optical insights into dissolved organic carbon cycling along the terrestrial-aquatic continuum | Cleveland State University |
| 1-27-2023 | Chibuike Ibebuchi | The 2022 Nigerian floods as seen from remote sensing and climatological data analysis | Kent State University |
| 11-04-2022 | Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao | From Conservation and Conflict to Environmental Peacebuilding for a More-Than-Human World | Kent State University |
| 10-21-2022 | Zachary Suriano | Snowmelt and stream discharge variability in the Susquehanna River basin: Connections to global forcings through synoptic frequencies | West Kentucky University |
| 10-07-2022 | Scott Rudlosky | The Role of NOAA/NESDIS through the Lens of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper | NOAA/NESDIS/STAR |
| 9-30-2022 | Jonathan Overpeck | Climate Change, Drought and Global Aridification: Understanding Confidence | University of Michigan |
| 4-29-2022 | César Terrer | Carbon Accumulation in Land Under Rising CO2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3-25-2022 | Adriana E. Martinez | Flooding Along the Fence: Hydrological Impacts Along the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, Texas | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| 3-11-2022 | Jennifer Fitchett | Emerging (southern) African Biometeorology: Developing and Adapting Methods | University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| 2-04-2022 | Jennie Vasarhelyi | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | Cuyahoga Valley National Park |
| 1-28-2022 | Michael Allen | Climate Resilience in 2022: The Norfolk, Virginia Perspective | Towson University |
| 12-03-21 | Matthew Dannenberg | Climate change, extreme events, and the functioning of water-limited ecosystems | University of Iowa |
| 11-19-21 | He Yin | Cropland change in the eastern Mediterranean region during the Syrian Civil War | Kent State University |
| 11-05-21 | Darla Munroe | Unsustainable land systems | The Ohio State University |